CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The chained Farley Mowat floats under police guard in Cape Town harbor, out of reach of the whaling ships its captain seeks to destroy.
For seven weeks, the crew of the tiny activist ship harassed Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters, chasing the hunters through icy seas.
Now, the Canadian-registered ship has been forced to rest.
Last month, it was detained on arrival in South Africa by marine officials who say it does not meet safety requirements.
The crew talk of a diplomatic conspiracy to shut their campaign down -- and as they wait, they muse on their latest high-seas battle.
The 657-ton Farley Mowat -- flying the skull-and-crossbones like a modern pirate ship -- stalked Japanese ships hunting minke whales through the huge waves of the Southern Ocean and eventually sideswiped the fleet's cargo ship.
"Every time we approached them, they ran. We kept them running for 4,000 miles and 15 days," captain and activist Paul Watson told Reuters from the deck of his black steel ship.
"We couldn't catch them, so it was constantly a hit-and-ambush type of thing," he says, proudly recounting tales of the whalers he has helped to sink and the damage caused to those that escaped.
A founding member of Greenpeace, Watson now heads the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which broke away from Greenpeace and believes in action rather than protests.
The Farley Mowat, named after a Canadian author known as an environmental champion, is Sea Shepherd's standard-bearer.
Article Continued ...
The Japanese are still hunting whales. For food. Whale sushi. In my book whales are sentient beings, and killing them is murder. Killing them for food is the same as killing a chimp or gorilla for food (as poor Africans are still doing) and is morally equivalent to cannibalism. Hell, it is cannibalism. It would be far healthier for the planet if there were a lot more good old fashioned mano a mano Homo Sock Puppet cannibalism. There's more humans on the hoof by weight than any other animal but ants and termites. Ants and termites are high protein but in most people's minds they do not qualify as the other white meat.
Excuse me for a moment.
“SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!”
I feel better now.
Benighted creatures such as chickens and cattle only exist because we, the human race, created them, by selective breeding from wild ancestors over generations, and by genetic manipulation since yesterday. Their degenerated races continue only because we find them tasty and expeditious with biggie fries and a 42 oz pop, at the drivethru--and because the Agricultural-Industrial Complex makes billions of dollars selling the flesh of their carcasses to us. Also, they've got to do something with all that corn. The Green Giant can only sell so much creamed corn. If we as a race stopped eating domesticated animals, Tysons, The American Beef Council, et al., would stop raising them. Their populations would crash, leaving only remnant populations in zoos, and farm museums, and possibly some feral pigs and chickens. So remember, if you give up the nuggets and the Big Mac, you're on the road to genocide--genocide most fowl.
I've never raised an animal for food, but I have killed, cleaned, cooked, and eaten fish, birds, and small mammals. It is strange to make a living animal dead, have it die at one's hands in one's hands, and to divide a whole body into pieces of meat and waste. But the Bible lies; the mark of Cain is on the heart, not the forehead.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
JAM-PACKED PLANET: THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
Planet's Population to Hit 6.5 Billion Saturday
By Leonard David LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 24 February 200612:38 pm ET
A population milestone is about to be set on this jam-packed planet.
On Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the population here on this good Earth is projected to hit 6.5 billion people.
Along with this forecast, an analysis by the International Programs Center at the U.S. Census Bureau points to another factoid, Robert Bernstein of the Bureau's Public Information Center advised LiveScience. Mark this on your calendar: Some six years from now, on Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Earth will be home to 7 billion folks.
On average, 4.4 people are born every second.
Remarkably, despite the many new developments over the past 50 years, one fact looks very much the same: Populations are growing most rapidly where such growth can be afforded the least—an observation that has changed little over time.
Via LiveScience.com. Read entire article HERE.
By Leonard David LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 24 February 200612:38 pm ET
A population milestone is about to be set on this jam-packed planet.
On Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the population here on this good Earth is projected to hit 6.5 billion people.
Along with this forecast, an analysis by the International Programs Center at the U.S. Census Bureau points to another factoid, Robert Bernstein of the Bureau's Public Information Center advised LiveScience. Mark this on your calendar: Some six years from now, on Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Earth will be home to 7 billion folks.
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On average, 4.4 people are born every second.
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Remarkably, despite the many new developments over the past 50 years, one fact looks very much the same: Populations are growing most rapidly where such growth can be afforded the least—an observation that has changed little over time.
Via LiveScience.com. Read entire article HERE.
THE UBER-GEEK YO-MAMAS
Yo mama's resting energy is her mass times the speed of ugly squared.
Yo mama so fat, her blue mumu looks like a red shift.
Yo mama's like an mp3—she's free, and everyone just passes her around.
Yo mama so fat, neutrinos stop and go around her!
Yo mama so fat, Stephen Hawking found three extra dimensions in her panties!
Yo mama so fat, she sat down at the Periodic Table—and Uranium got pissed off and left!
Yo mama made of Ugly quarks.
Yo mama so fat, when she go to the beach, Greenpeace tries to tow her back out to sea!
Yo mama's so fat, she's afraid that if she runs into Auntie Matter, they'll gravitationally collapse and create a black hole!
Yo mama so dumb, she thinks the Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction is what happened right before she had twins.
Yo mama's so fat they have to draw her world-line with a paint roller.
Yo mama's so fat we can't even ASSUME she's a point mass.
Yo mama's ass is a quantum phenomenon—more wave than particle.
Yo mama is so fat, she don't have skin; she has an event horizon.
Yo mama so dumb, her IQ is an imaginary number.
Yo mama's so fat, her DNA is a TRIPLE helix.
Yo mama so dumb, she STILL thinks voting for Bush the second time was a good idea.
Note: Dick started it.
Yo mama so fat, her blue mumu looks like a red shift.
Yo mama's like an mp3—she's free, and everyone just passes her around.
Yo mama so fat, neutrinos stop and go around her!
Yo mama so fat, Stephen Hawking found three extra dimensions in her panties!
Yo mama so fat, she sat down at the Periodic Table—and Uranium got pissed off and left!
Yo mama made of Ugly quarks.
Yo mama so fat, when she go to the beach, Greenpeace tries to tow her back out to sea!
Yo mama's so fat, she's afraid that if she runs into Auntie Matter, they'll gravitationally collapse and create a black hole!
Yo mama so dumb, she thinks the Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction is what happened right before she had twins.
Yo mama's so fat they have to draw her world-line with a paint roller.
Yo mama's so fat we can't even ASSUME she's a point mass.
Yo mama's ass is a quantum phenomenon—more wave than particle.
Yo mama is so fat, she don't have skin; she has an event horizon.
Yo mama so dumb, her IQ is an imaginary number.
Yo mama's so fat, her DNA is a TRIPLE helix.
Yo mama so dumb, she STILL thinks voting for Bush the second time was a good idea.
Note: Dick started it.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
DR. OMED’S LATE NITE SERMONETTE
LIES, DAMN LIES, AND STATISTICS:
WHY THE HUMAN RACE CAN’T DO THE NUMBERS
I had a little bird,
Its name was Enza.
I opened the window,
And in-flu-enza.
Le superflu, chose tres necessaire—Voltaire*
Estimated number of people killed in the 9-11 attacks:
2,986
Average number of people killed
in auto accidents in the United States per year:
42,000
Estimated number of people killed instantly
in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945:
80,000
Estimated number of people dead
from the after-effects of the Hiroshima bombing by 1950:
200,000
American soldiers killed (so far)
in the invasion and occupation of Iraq:
2,280
American soldiers wounded (so far)
in the invasion and occupation of Iraq:
16,653
Estimated number of Iraqis killed (so far)
in the invasion and occupation of Iraq:
28,000 to 32,000
British soldiers killed and wounded on the first day
of the Battle of the Somme in WWI:
58,000
Estimated rate of species extinct per year:
50,000
The total human population of Earth
projected to 02/23/06 at 03:39 GMT (EST+5):
6,499,416,902
Total increase in the human population of Earth
since the day before yesterday (2/20):
621,648
Total killed in six natural disasters aka Acts of God
(Southeast Asia tsunami; Sumatra earthquake;
Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Stan mudslide in El Salvador;
earthquake in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India;
mudslide in the Philippines)
occurring between 12/26/04 and 2/17/06:
491,120
Percent of total human population of Earth
represented by the 491,120 aforesaid victims of Acts of God:
1 five thousandth of 1 percent
Human population of Earth in 1918:
1,800,000,000
Estimated number of people dead in the 1918-1919 flu pandemic:
Lowball: 20,000,000
Highball: 40,000,000
(1.1 to 2.2 percent of the then current world population)
Number of people dead from AIDS since 1980:
25,000,000
(A much smaller fraction of the current world population)
WHY THE HUMAN RACE CAN’T DO THE NUMBERS
I had a little bird,
Its name was Enza.
I opened the window,
And in-flu-enza.
Le superflu, chose tres necessaire—Voltaire*
Estimated number of people killed in the 9-11 attacks:
2,986
Average number of people killed
in auto accidents in the United States per year:
42,000
Estimated number of people killed instantly
in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945:
80,000
Estimated number of people dead
from the after-effects of the Hiroshima bombing by 1950:
200,000
American soldiers killed (so far)
in the invasion and occupation of Iraq:
2,280
American soldiers wounded (so far)
in the invasion and occupation of Iraq:
16,653
Estimated number of Iraqis killed (so far)
in the invasion and occupation of Iraq:
28,000 to 32,000
British soldiers killed and wounded on the first day
of the Battle of the Somme in WWI:
58,000
Estimated rate of species extinct per year:
50,000
The total human population of Earth
projected to 02/23/06 at 03:39 GMT (EST+5):
6,499,416,902
Total increase in the human population of Earth
since the day before yesterday (2/20):
621,648
Total killed in six natural disasters aka Acts of God
(Southeast Asia tsunami; Sumatra earthquake;
Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Stan mudslide in El Salvador;
earthquake in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India;
mudslide in the Philippines)
occurring between 12/26/04 and 2/17/06:
491,120
Percent of total human population of Earth
represented by the 491,120 aforesaid victims of Acts of God:
1 five thousandth of 1 percent
Human population of Earth in 1918:
1,800,000,000
Estimated number of people dead in the 1918-1919 flu pandemic:
Lowball: 20,000,000
Highball: 40,000,000
(1.1 to 2.2 percent of the then current world population)
Number of people dead from AIDS since 1980:
25,000,000
(A much smaller fraction of the current world population)
If the H5N1 bird flu virus morphs into a form as virulent to humans as the 1918 influenza pandemic, killing the same percentage of the current total world population, the number of dead flu victims would be approximately 71,500,000 to 143,000,00. At the current rate of population increase, that number would be replaced in less than a year in the case of the lowball number and in less than two years in the case of the highball number. As I said in Dick Jones’ comment box;
We are the Plague.
But, collectively, the human race can’t do—or face—the math. We’re past due for the herd to be thinned. Speaking entirely metaphorically (Okay, Dick?), the H5N1 virus is just a little something Mother Gaia has simmering in a petrie dish on the back burner. Disease, natural disasters and the effects of climate change are not killing us fast enough. We aren’t killing us fast enough. Only a real bastard of a cataclysm, perhaps combining several factors will provide the economy of scale required. After all, it takes four horsemen, according to Revelations. Supersize that Armageddon.
Our species, except for termites and ants, is, pound for pound, the largest, most wide spread terrestrial source of protein rich food on Earth. I don’t actually believe in the Gaia Hypothesis, but I do put some credence in the process of natural selection. The founder mutation that creates a bug that can eat us wholesale will likely be very successful. We are not privileged to sit at the top of the food chain and root, hog, root ‘til Jesus calls us home. We are all tomorrow’s food. Soylent Green is people.
My simulacrum of the facts, ma’am, just the facts; my heapin’ helpin’ of lies, damn lies, and statistics may not be tasty with fries and a shake; feel free to collect your own, more palatable set. But you have to able to count past one...two...many. I do not regard my assessment, such as it is, a counsel of despair. I certainly don’t think we can kill the biosphere; I think maybe we should stop trying so hard to do it. We can..will…have impoverished the diversity of the biosphere to the point of creating a major extinction event, like the Permian or Cretaceous extinctions. Life on earth has all always come back, even from the worst extinction events, but tell that to the trilobites and dinosaurs. I don’t even think the human race will go extinct, but our descendents will likely live in an impoverished material civilization and culture, unless we make some big changes, right now. There are things we can do every day to make the future better, and to save what we haven’t already lost. I love the smell of burning bridges in the morning.
*"The superflous is very necessary."
Note: Dr. Omed would to thank Dick, Karen, and Meg for their inspiration.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
ON SALE NOW
BUYING ARMAGEDDON
We're buying Armageddon because it's on sale at WAL-MART.
We're buying Armageddon because it only takes a couple of minutes in the microwave.
We're buying Armageddon because it has a three car garage and a Jacuzzi.
We're buying Armageddon because it whitens our teeth and freshens our breath.
We're buying Armageddon because it kills with one shot.
We're buying Armageddon because Jesus loves us yes we know.
We're buying Armageddon because it's made out of recycled materials.
We're buying Armageddon because we want to keep up with our Jones.
We're buying Armageddon because it has a lifetime guarantee and we'll never have to buy another one.
We're buying Armageddon because you can use it again and again and again and it never wears out.
We're buying Armageddon because you can download the free trial version from the Internet but you have to pay for the full version.
We're buying Armageddon because you can get it at the drive-thru and it comes with a free action figure.
We're buying Armageddon because we're collecting the set.
We're buying Armageddon because the extended version has just been released on DVD.
We're buying Armageddon because it's part of any good investment strategy.
We're buying Armageddon because it's wrinkle free.
We're buying Armageddon because it's not just for Christians anymore.
We're buying Armageddon because revenge is sweet but God's wrath is sweeter.
We're buying Armageddon because Armageddon means never having to say you're sorry.
We're buying Armageddon because we don't want to die
alone.
We're buying Armageddon because it's on sale at WAL-MART.
We're buying Armageddon because it only takes a couple of minutes in the microwave.
We're buying Armageddon because it has a three car garage and a Jacuzzi.
We're buying Armageddon because it whitens our teeth and freshens our breath.
We're buying Armageddon because it kills with one shot.
We're buying Armageddon because Jesus loves us yes we know.
We're buying Armageddon because it's made out of recycled materials.
We're buying Armageddon because we want to keep up with our Jones.
We're buying Armageddon because it has a lifetime guarantee and we'll never have to buy another one.
We're buying Armageddon because you can use it again and again and again and it never wears out.
We're buying Armageddon because you can download the free trial version from the Internet but you have to pay for the full version.
We're buying Armageddon because you can get it at the drive-thru and it comes with a free action figure.
We're buying Armageddon because we're collecting the set.
We're buying Armageddon because the extended version has just been released on DVD.
We're buying Armageddon because it's part of any good investment strategy.
We're buying Armageddon because it's wrinkle free.
We're buying Armageddon because it's not just for Christians anymore.
We're buying Armageddon because revenge is sweet but God's wrath is sweeter.
We're buying Armageddon because Armageddon means never having to say you're sorry.
We're buying Armageddon because we don't want to die
alone.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
ARF!
CONFESSION
Speak, Grendel, speak.
Though my tongue has been cut out,
my native language beyond recall?
Its words, like the blows of a knout
in the hands of an expert sadist,
have left no outward mark;
no least bruise of palimpsest
on these old parchments,
that I wear like skins,
my costume for the auto-da-fe.
Speak, Grendel, speak.
My heart is full of owls;
my mother cached them there,
a chest full of knickknacks, paddywack,
she bequeathed to unsuspecting posterity.
My back is full of leather straps;
my father laid them on, hope he’s glad
he made the proud flesh so strong.
I am a monster. Wolves run in circles,
and bite themselves when I howl.
I gnash down the marrow
of long bones a song too large
for narrow ears.
Speak, Grendel, speak.
Dana Pattillo
Speak, Grendel, speak.
Though my tongue has been cut out,
my native language beyond recall?
Its words, like the blows of a knout
in the hands of an expert sadist,
have left no outward mark;
no least bruise of palimpsest
on these old parchments,
that I wear like skins,
my costume for the auto-da-fe.
Speak, Grendel, speak.
My heart is full of owls;
my mother cached them there,
a chest full of knickknacks, paddywack,
she bequeathed to unsuspecting posterity.
My back is full of leather straps;
my father laid them on, hope he’s glad
he made the proud flesh so strong.
I am a monster. Wolves run in circles,
and bite themselves when I howl.
I gnash down the marrow
of long bones a song too large
for narrow ears.
Speak, Grendel, speak.
Dana Pattillo
DR. OMED’S SHORT FORM SERMONETTE
DO WE LIVE IN THE SHORT ATTENTION SPAN UNIVERSE?
Did you know, if your attention span was shorter than the Planck time, roughly equal to 1x10 to the -43 seconds, the smallest measurement of time with any meaning in our universe (the time it takes a photon the travel the Planck length, the smallest measurable unit of length in our universe, roughly equal to 1.6x10 to the -35 meters…lost you already, huh?) Anyway, if your attention span was shorter than the Planck time, you would disappear into a self-created black hole.
Trust me. This occurs when the neurons of your brain, due to a violation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, begin absorbing high energy addion particles (an addion is the fundamental quantum of distraction); when the wavelength of addion irradiation becomes shorter than the Planck length, your brain collapses past its Schwartzchild radius into a quantum black hole, and takes the rest of you with it down the wormhole, which is so improbable that it promptly evaporates. Essentially, you shrink wrap yourself into non-existence—at least, in this universe. Talk about collapsing the wave form.
Is that why we’re here? Is this the short attention span universe? Did we, as allegedly sentient beings, so abuse our intelligence that we developed attention spans shorter than the fundamental quantum of time in our home universe, and thus suck ourselves down the rabbit hole into this universe? It would explain a lot of things, you have to admit.
What was I saying just then?
Did you know, if your attention span was shorter than the Planck time, roughly equal to 1x10 to the -43 seconds, the smallest measurement of time with any meaning in our universe (the time it takes a photon the travel the Planck length, the smallest measurable unit of length in our universe, roughly equal to 1.6x10 to the -35 meters…lost you already, huh?) Anyway, if your attention span was shorter than the Planck time, you would disappear into a self-created black hole.
Trust me. This occurs when the neurons of your brain, due to a violation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, begin absorbing high energy addion particles (an addion is the fundamental quantum of distraction); when the wavelength of addion irradiation becomes shorter than the Planck length, your brain collapses past its Schwartzchild radius into a quantum black hole, and takes the rest of you with it down the wormhole, which is so improbable that it promptly evaporates. Essentially, you shrink wrap yourself into non-existence—at least, in this universe. Talk about collapsing the wave form.
Is that why we’re here? Is this the short attention span universe? Did we, as allegedly sentient beings, so abuse our intelligence that we developed attention spans shorter than the fundamental quantum of time in our home universe, and thus suck ourselves down the rabbit hole into this universe? It would explain a lot of things, you have to admit.
What was I saying just then?
Friday, February 03, 2006
BEST OF (TENT) SHOW: THE CONSERVATIVE QUESTIONAIRE
Please try to answer the following questions as honestly as possible.
1—What do you think caused your conservatism?
2—When and how did you first decide you were a conservative?
3—Is it possible that your conservatism stems from a morbid fear of ambiguity?
4—Is it possible that your conservatism is just a phase you may grow out of?
5—Conservatives have histories of failure in personal relationships. Do you think you may have turned to conservative politics out of fear of rejection?
6—If you’ve never had an open mind, how do you know that you wouldn’t prefer that?
7—If conservatism is normal, why are a disproportionate number of mental patients registered Republicans?
8—Have you disclosed your conservative tendencies to your friends? How did they react?
9—Your conservatism doesn’t offend me so long as you don’t try to force it on me. Why do you people feel compelled to seduce others into your socio-political orientation?
10—Should you choose to become a parent, would you raise your children with conservative values, knowing the mental, emotional, and spiritual poverty they would face?
11—The great majority of child molesters are conservative Republicans. Do you really consider it safe to expose your children to conservative Republican teachers?
12—Why do you insist on being so obvious, and making a public spectacle of your conservatism? Can’t you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
13—How can you ever hope to become a whole person if you limit yourself to a compulsive, exclusive, GOP political orientation, and remain unwilling to explore and develop your normal, healthy, Goddess-given liberal potential?
14—Republicans are noted for assigning themselves and others narrowly restricted, stereotyped sexual, social, and economic roles. Why do you cling to such unhealthy role playing?
15—Why do conservatives place so much emphasis on sex and money? Do you support prostitution?
16—Shouldn’t you ask the fringe conservative types, like anti-abortion terrorists, NRA wingnuts, Limbaugh dittoheads, and Southern Baptists, to behave? Wouldn’t a little decorum improve the overall conservative image?
17—Could the human race survive if everyone became conservative and joined the Republican Party, considering the accelerated potential for world wide-cultural and ecological collapse, not to mention the menace of preemptive use of weapons of mass destruction?
18—There seem to be very few happy conservatives. Techniques have been developed with which you might be able to change if you really want to. Have you considered sex therapy?
19—Why do conservative Republicans hate or distrust so many other people? Is that what makes them Republican?
20—Why are conservatives so promiscuously religious?
21—Polls indicate that conservatives engage in sex less often than people of any other political persuasion. Isn’t possible that all you need is a good lay?
Dr. Omed prays for the conversion of Infidels and Republicans every day.
(Originally published in Dr. Omed's Tent Show Revival 6.21.04)
1—What do you think caused your conservatism?
2—When and how did you first decide you were a conservative?
3—Is it possible that your conservatism stems from a morbid fear of ambiguity?
4—Is it possible that your conservatism is just a phase you may grow out of?
5—Conservatives have histories of failure in personal relationships. Do you think you may have turned to conservative politics out of fear of rejection?
6—If you’ve never had an open mind, how do you know that you wouldn’t prefer that?
7—If conservatism is normal, why are a disproportionate number of mental patients registered Republicans?
8—Have you disclosed your conservative tendencies to your friends? How did they react?
9—Your conservatism doesn’t offend me so long as you don’t try to force it on me. Why do you people feel compelled to seduce others into your socio-political orientation?
10—Should you choose to become a parent, would you raise your children with conservative values, knowing the mental, emotional, and spiritual poverty they would face?
11—The great majority of child molesters are conservative Republicans. Do you really consider it safe to expose your children to conservative Republican teachers?
12—Why do you insist on being so obvious, and making a public spectacle of your conservatism? Can’t you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
13—How can you ever hope to become a whole person if you limit yourself to a compulsive, exclusive, GOP political orientation, and remain unwilling to explore and develop your normal, healthy, Goddess-given liberal potential?
14—Republicans are noted for assigning themselves and others narrowly restricted, stereotyped sexual, social, and economic roles. Why do you cling to such unhealthy role playing?
15—Why do conservatives place so much emphasis on sex and money? Do you support prostitution?
16—Shouldn’t you ask the fringe conservative types, like anti-abortion terrorists, NRA wingnuts, Limbaugh dittoheads, and Southern Baptists, to behave? Wouldn’t a little decorum improve the overall conservative image?
17—Could the human race survive if everyone became conservative and joined the Republican Party, considering the accelerated potential for world wide-cultural and ecological collapse, not to mention the menace of preemptive use of weapons of mass destruction?
18—There seem to be very few happy conservatives. Techniques have been developed with which you might be able to change if you really want to. Have you considered sex therapy?
19—Why do conservative Republicans hate or distrust so many other people? Is that what makes them Republican?
20—Why are conservatives so promiscuously religious?
21—Polls indicate that conservatives engage in sex less often than people of any other political persuasion. Isn’t possible that all you need is a good lay?
Dr. Omed prays for the conversion of Infidels and Republicans every day.
(Originally published in Dr. Omed's Tent Show Revival 6.21.04)
Thursday, February 02, 2006
SIGN OF FOUR
I don't normally succumb to such memes, but Anne Penkill has seduced me.
SIGN OF FOUR
Four Jobs I’ve had:
1. Ice delivery man
2. Projectionist at an x-rated movie theater
3. Reading newspapers and tagging articles at the Denver Press Association clipping service
4. Journeyman (artisan) baker
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus
4. Evil Dead II (or Army of Darkness, either one)
Four places I have lived:
1. Oklahoma City
2. Denver
3. Colorado Springs
4. Tulsa
Four TV shows I love to watch (not counting the news):
1. House
2. Twin Peaks (on DVD)
3. Millenium (on DVD)
4. Firefly (on DVD)
Four places I have been on vacation:
Baltimore
Washington, D.C.
New York City
Telluride, SW Colorado
Four favorite dishes:
1. My mother’s fried chicken and gravy (the gravy could be considered as a separate dish, but as my mother’s been dead for 28 years I feel I can sneak it in)
2. Vietnamese soup
3. Fresh shucked oysters on the half shell as served at Faidy’s in the Lexington Square Market in Baltimore
4. Whatever’s in the fridge at 2AM
Four websites I visit daily:
1. Salon recently updated blogs page
2. Salon rankings page
3. Referer rankings page for the Tent Show
4. (in aggregate) all my blogging boyfriends and girlfriends (as my wife Elspeth calls them) via my blogroll
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. The Burgess Shale fossil site in the Canadian Rockies
2. The Library of Congress rare book room
3. Central Park
4. On a four man raft on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
SIGN OF FOUR
Four Jobs I’ve had:
1. Ice delivery man
2. Projectionist at an x-rated movie theater
3. Reading newspapers and tagging articles at the Denver Press Association clipping service
4. Journeyman (artisan) baker
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus
4. Evil Dead II (or Army of Darkness, either one)
Four places I have lived:
1. Oklahoma City
2. Denver
3. Colorado Springs
4. Tulsa
Four TV shows I love to watch (not counting the news):
1. House
2. Twin Peaks (on DVD)
3. Millenium (on DVD)
4. Firefly (on DVD)
Four places I have been on vacation:
Baltimore
Washington, D.C.
New York City
Telluride, SW Colorado
Four favorite dishes:
1. My mother’s fried chicken and gravy (the gravy could be considered as a separate dish, but as my mother’s been dead for 28 years I feel I can sneak it in)
2. Vietnamese soup
3. Fresh shucked oysters on the half shell as served at Faidy’s in the Lexington Square Market in Baltimore
4. Whatever’s in the fridge at 2AM
Four websites I visit daily:
1. Salon recently updated blogs page
2. Salon rankings page
3. Referer rankings page for the Tent Show
4. (in aggregate) all my blogging boyfriends and girlfriends (as my wife Elspeth calls them) via my blogroll
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. The Burgess Shale fossil site in the Canadian Rockies
2. The Library of Congress rare book room
3. Central Park
4. On a four man raft on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
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